Not only am I marketing a new racing attire, but I am also adding more distance to the race
First off I have to thank my Mom for being awesome acting as my taxi service, photographer, cheering section, and item retriever after the race. She was great along with all the police and volunteers along the race. All the major intersections in the city had police officers at them and the minor ones had volunteers. The aid stations were every other mile and were well manned and stocked. The course was also well marked if ever you had question of where you were going. The crowds were also great this year coming out to support the runners and cheering us on. As for the race. It quite cool waiting before the race right up until the start. Once the race started up I started warming up. I had a really good first half marathon. My time was about 2:02 and change when I crossed the half way timing mat. Somewhere after seeing my Mom around mile 14 or 15 my legs started tiring and I started slowing down. I thought I had trained pretty well with some long runs but I was tiring anyways. I’m not sure if I wasn’t hydrated enough or was getting cold and didn’t realize it or just didn’t get enough run training in. I was able to run the whole race and came in 322th of 434 finishers at 4:25:37. I guess not terrible for my first race but hoping for better. My goal was between four and four and a half hours so I did make that but was hoping to be closer to four hours than the four and a half. I think I’m going to do this race again next year but am not sure if I’ll do the marathon or just the half which runs at the same time. Maybe I’ll see you out there. It’s a fun race.
Ahhh, finally the medal